SOMETHING wicked is coming SOON! !!

Red Magic . Elegy of Rain . eye of newt . SIN & ashes . PAIN . . . This weekend Robin Spriggs, Sarah L. Covert, and Joseph S. Pulver, Sr are going to do a very bloody and diabolical thing . . . STAY TUNED! !!

Pickman's Models: Deep One rising...

 The latest Pickman's Models image is from a local production (information is forthcoming) from Tulsa, Oklahoma based Special Effects Make-Up Artist John Stirling (Stirling FX). John was assisted on the project by another local artist, Candace Fausset...

John is currently working on effects for Evil Dead the Musical Oklahoma, which debuts October 2nd...

(Thanks to John Stirling)

The End is Nigh (a reminder)...

The 15th Annual H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival and CthulhuCon starts tomorrow, and its an event not to be missed (although Unfilmable.com will be missing it again this year)! New films added to the 2010 schedule include the short Poe film Darkness There and Stuart Gordon's (who will also be in attendance) Dagon...

Sarah Covert's excellent site She Never Slept will be providing live broadcasts (courtesy of Alanna Quinn) Friday, Saturday, and Sunday at 8PM (Pacific), as well as Twitter updates throughout the event, so flop on over to sheneverslept.com for updates...

The H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival promotes the works of H.P. Lovecraft, literary horror, and weird tales through the cinematic adaptations by professional and amateur filmmakers. The festival was founded in 1995 by Andrew Migliore in the hope that H.P. Lovecraft would be rightly recognized as a master of gothic horror and his work more faithfully adapted to film and television...

Click here for ticket information...

(Thanks to hplfilmfestival.com and sheneverslept.com)

"What Is It?"

In anticipation of the upcoming Altitude DVD release, Anchor Bay has released a new clip from the film! The DVD streets October 26th and retails for $26.98 (DVD) and $34.99 (Blu-ray)...

(Thanks to darkchild134)

Countdown to the HP Lovecraft Film Festival #2

Download HPL & CC Countdown #2 here!

Derek M. Koch takes a look at this year's festival schedule.

IT'S SO FLUFFAY!

For those of you who insist on some cuddliness in your Old Ones, yet another Cthulhu Plushie is being released, this time by Squishable. They seem to specialize in cute stuffed animals, and somehow have discovered the Ancient One as an inspiration.

The Green Slime!

I'm unsure how many of you are fans of classic Sci Fi, but one film fans have always waited for is The Green Slime

In this odd collaboration by Japan, Italy, and the United States, a huge meteor is on a collision course with earth and astronauts are sent to take care of it. But one of them carries some green slime back unknowingly, and it turns into a horrible tentacled monster, which quickly multiplies into a horde when it's discovered any form of energy causes it to replicate. A somewhat Lovecraftian plot, but it's more suited towards fans of Sci-Fi B-movies from the 50's and 60's.

Warner Brothers has announced it will be available via their Warner Archives next month. For those who don't know, the Warner Archives is a service in which you can choose a film from the list and they'll burn and mail a DVD to you. It's mostly older films they don't think would be a commercial success to release on DVD, which can be sucky if the print they use to make it with is rough. But it's the only way to get access to most of those films without buying a bootleg or foreign disc.

New Mythos game in the works...

Latina Estúdio is developing a new game based on the works of HPL called Mythos! The game, which takes place in an eerie parallel world, full of horrors and mystery, revolves around Randolph Carter, an adventurer and mystic who knows forbidden magic and lore, and who will fight with all his might to impede the resurrection of the Great Cthulhu, a brutal deity that desires not to govern the world, but merely to destroy it...

Watch this space for more...

(Thanks to Latina Estúdio)

From the Dark teaser trailer...

Joester Films are currently working on an animated adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft's Herbert West: Reanimator. The first segment, From the Dark, will be released this Halloween...

Check out the teaser trailer below...

(Thanks to Joester Films)

New Shadow Out of Time artwork and update...

Richard Svensson and Daniel Lennéer, filmmakers who most recently worked together on Terror from the Abyss (watch it here), are collaborating on an adaptation of Lovecraft's masterpiece The Shadow Out of Time! According to Richard, aka The Lone Animator, he and Daniel were both working on their own versions of the story (we previously reported on Richard's untitled "Yith" project here), when they decided to join forces and tackle the story together...

Richard also sent along some incredible "production art" revealing a showdown between a Yithian and a Flying Polyp. Interestingly, the background is a 2D image created from photos of ceramic tiles...

The film is currently in the pre-production phase, but Richard says that they hope to shoot later this year...

(Thanks to Richard Svensson)

Horror icons join The Gathering...

Gunnar Hansen (The Texas Chain Saw Massacre), Kane Hodder (the Friday the 13th series) and Judith O'Dea (Night of the Living Dead) have joined Udo Kier, Doug (Pinhead) Bradley, William Sadler and possibly Robert (Freddy Krueger) Englund on the new anthology film The Gathering...

Production, under director Jon Keeyes and writer by Carl Kirshner, is scheduled for a late 2010/early 2011 start...

Check out our previous coverage of the film here...

About the film: On All Hallow's Eve, The Devil has gathered together four of history's greatest horror writers - Edgar Allan Poe, Bram Stoker, H.P. Lovecraft and Mary Shelley - to share their untold scariest story in hopes of winning the evening's prize; the opportunity to leave purgatory forever...

(Thanks to Dread Central)

Terror from the Abyss...

Terror from the Abyss is an independent production based on HPL's At the Mountains of Madness brought to life through mixed techniques like green screen compositing, cut-outs and clay animation...

Production took place in Sweden during 2009 - 2010, and is a collaboration between filmmakers Daniel Lenneer and Christopher Johansson who have been working together since 2004. Stop-motion animation was provided by The Lone Animator, Richard Svensson...

The film, which you can watch in its entirety below, is available on DVD from Millroad Film...

(Thanks to Daniel Lenneer)

The Island trailer debuts...

The trailer for Gonzo Entertainment's The Island is now online! The film stars Nathan Fisher and Charlotte Wyatt, and features songs by Don Coyote, Sad Day in Hell, Josh Tannehill, Jon Gower, and SweaterVest...

Check it out below...

(Thanks to Nathan Fisher)

Quoth Cthulhu: Guillermo del Toro (updated)...

It's been awhile since my last Quoth Cthulhu, so what better way to bring it back than with quotes from del Toro about At the Mountains of Madness. The following quotes came from the TimesTalks series at New York City’s TimesCenter...

"We've been designing for the last 3-weeks. It's being produced by James Cameron, who's been a friend for 20-years. We have avoided working together until the time came for the right project. Obviously, the difference between the novella and the movie is that Lovecraft had a gift for making everything specifically ambiguous. He would say 'the leering face loaded with madness,’ or 'the evil perverse entity of unnamable'… everything was unnamable, indescribable. When you're reading you go,'Whoa!' your brain fills those spaces. For every creature, everyone has a secret mental image of what those creatures look like. It's going to be impossible to please everyone."

"I've been thinking of those monsters for twenty years. Fortunately for me no one has done monsters like the ones I'm doing. In all the movies ever made there's never been monsters like the ones we're doing. About two weeks ago we were visited by Dennis Muren. He looked at the designs, and he turned to us and said, 'No one has seen monsters like this ever.' I was like, [boyish grin] 'Yeah!' I was happy and vindicated and all that. All I'm telling you is to me some of these monsters are more real than many of my cousins. [laughs] I mean, I have to point to them when we're at dinner, [whispers] 'who's that, Pedro? PEDRO!' But monsters I know what they had for lunch, for dinner, the biological condition, where they come from. I know all these questions because I live with them in my mind all the time."

- Guillermo del Toro

Check out Shock Till You Drop for more...

Update: This isn't really new, but MTV (via Shock Till You Drop) is reporting that Ron Perlman (Hellboy) will play the role of Larson, as long as he's available. Read on for more...

"All I can tell you is if Ron Perlman is free, he will be in. I wrote a part for him. He read it and if everything falls in place, Ron Perlman has a role in it written specifically for him."

"Larson, the sort of dog guy, the guy that cares for the dogs and the sled — the part of the expedition that is dog sleds. It's a fantastic character. I really love him. He's sort of a pragmatic guy, doesn't care about science or the mythology or the cosmology. He just is a hard-boiled Nordic man, and it is written specifically for him."

(Thanks to shocktillyoudrop.com)

The End is Nigh...

The beginning of October is fast approaching and with it, the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival! I've been covering the festival for some time now, and even attended a few, but as I've reported, this will be the last festival in Portland, Oregon (at least for now)...

I won't be attending this year, but if you have the opportunity, I highly recommend that you do so! The festival is an amazing time, and you'll see films there that you probably won't see anywhere else...

A quick look at the HPLFF website shows that a few more features and shorts have been added since my last update, so here they are (along with a fancy graphic provided by Sarah L. Covert)...

Features:

Pan's Labyrinth by Guillermo del Toro
Primal by Josh Reed

Shorts:

A Pleasing Terror - Canon Albreic's Scrap-Book by Stephen Featherstone
Alice Jacobs is Dead by Alex Horwitz
AM1200 by David Prior (a returning favorite)
Derailed by Nicolas Simonin

(Thanks to sheneverslept.com and hplfilmfestival.com)

Altitude creature revealed...

Anchor Bay released a new batch of stills from their forthcoming film Altitude, including a look at the film's mysterious creature (previously seen in the trailer). The DVD streets October 26th and retails for $26.98 (DVD) and $34.99 (Blu-ray)...

Head over to Dread Central for more...

(Thanks to Dread Central)

Another Comic!

I know I said the next article would be on cosmic horror films, but I'm still researching for it and I came across this:


Arcana Comics is releasing Poe & Phillips an adventure set in an alternate universe where Edgar Allan Poe and Howard Phillips Lovecraft are supernatural investigators. Might not be everyone's cup or tea but the idea is interesting nonetheless.

Countdown to the HP Lovecraft Film Festival #1

Download HPL & CC Countdown #1 here!

He's been looking forward to it all year, and now Derek takes his anticipation for this year's HP Lovecraft & Cthulhu-Con to the podosphere.

More madness from del Toro...

Collider.com caught up with director/producer Guillermo del Toro who got them up to date on At the Mountains of Madness, The Haunted Mansion and several video games he's been developing. Check out the video interview below...

Guillermo del Toro talks AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS, HAUNTED MANSION, and Reveals He's Developing 3 Video Games from ColliderVideos on Vimeo.

(Thanks to collider.com)

Halloween Double Bill of Horrrors...

For Immediate Release:

What better way to celebrate Halloween than with two terrifying horror films filled with vampires, ghouls, gore, black magic and other things that go bump in the night!

At 7pm we will be showing the blood-soaked tale of vampires and revenge PRETTY DEAD THINGS, followed by a tale of terror that could have only sprung from the imagination of H.P. Lovecraft -- BEYOND THE DUNWICH HORROR at 9pm.

And to top off this Halloween Horrorthon..., we will be screening the WORLD PREMIERE trailer for our newest fright-fest -- THE DISCO EXORCIST before each film! You won't be able to see this trailer anywhere else, so don't miss it!

Tickets for each film is $8.00 at the door, but if you have the guts to stay for both... the price is only $12.00!

PRETTY DEAD THINGS stars William DeCoff, Danielle Lozeau, Patrick Pitu, Ross Kelly, Ashley Eaton, Jason Witter, Salvatore Marchese, Jennifer Scharf, Donald C. Foley and other fantastic performers.

BEYOND THE DUNWICH HORROR stars Jason McCormick, Sarah Nicklin, Michael Reed, Ruth Sullivan, Carlos Brum, Brandon Luis Aponte, Christopher Calcagni, Shanette Wilson, Robin Watkins and horror superstars Lynn Lowry and Jeff Dylan Graham!

Both films are UNRATED, but contain scenes of violence, gore, sex and nudity... so no one under 17 will be admitted!

When: October 21

Where: Orpheum Foxboro
1 School Street
Foxborough, MA



(Thanks to Richard Griffin)

New Die Farbe clip...

It's been awhile since we last mentioned Huan Vu's Die Farbe, based on The Colour out of Space, so I was excited to see that a new preview clip (complete with music from the film's score) appeared on YouTube recently. The film was supposed to have premiered in June, but It looks like this has been pushed back...

Check out die-farbe.com for more, and watch the latest clip below...




(Thanks to Huan Vu)

At the Mountains of Madness not green lit...

Deadline.com, the site that broke the news that James Cameron was joining AtMoM, are reporting (via an interview with Guillermo del Toro) that the project has yet to receive a green light...

"...I wanted to be shooting by June next year. I didn't want to let another year go by without shooting, it made no sense. So Jim, Jon Landau, Rae Sanchini, came with me for that big meeting. Jim and I were able to do a double tag team, talking about the world and the experience that Mountains would be. We found new ways for them to see it, and they agreed to investigate it further," del Toro tells the site. "We are not green lit, we are still budgeting and designing, and we are partners on this. I believe in my heart we are going to be making this movie in June of next year."

Head over to deadline.com for more...

(Thanks to deadline.com)

HPLFF Portland announces more films...

A few more short films have been added to the Portland HPLFF schedule, and founder Andrew Migliore has confirmed that this will be the last year (at least for now) for the Portland fest...

Call of C'thulu and Dunwich (both part of Project Space Squid), Effulgence (by Jeremy Peterson), Fyren (Keeper of the Light) by Robert P. Olsson and To My Mother and Father (by Can Evrenol) have been added to the 2010 fest, which takes place October 1-3...


Below is Andrew's message in its entirety...

"Yes the rumors are true... I am retiring (or going on sabbatical for awhile). I have been running this festival for 15 years and am out of sanity points. So what does this mean? Well Aaron Vanek has started a satellite festival in LA which will become an annual event. The Portland event is in limbo until I can find someone to replace me. We may have another satellite festival in Seattle and perhaps Austin. Regardless, I will always remain the founder... and the festival will live on and grow. So let us all celebrate H.P. and have a blast this October. cheers"


(Thanks to Andrew Migliore and hplfilmfestival.com)

Episode two of The pension Esmodine...

Episode two of the web series La pension Esmodine, created by writer Corentin Mea and director Aymeric Pelzer, is now online, and can be seen below (in French)...

Check out episode one here...



(Thanks to Aymeric Pelzer)

New one-sheet for The Festival...

Check out the official movie poster for Richard Terrasi's The Festival! Written and directed by Terrasi, and based on the short story by H.P. Lovecraft, the film stars Kevin Pinassi, Victoria Guthrie, Bill Kozy, Bob Lasprogato and Bonni Hauser...


(Thanks to Dark Vision Films)

Los Angeles Lovecraft fest today...

Just a reminder...

The historic Warner Grand Theatre will host the Los Angeles incarnation of the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival today and tickets are still available! The LA fest should be a great place to start for people new to Lovecraftian cinema, as they have the classics (Re-Animator, Cool Air and The Music of Erich Zann), recent favorites (AM 1200 and The Call of Cthulhu) and for those not in the know, Lovecraft: Fear of the Unknown. Plus filmmakers galore! Guests include Andrew Migliore (founder of the Portland fest) and the directors of all six films, Stuart Gordon, Frank Woodward, David Prior, Bryan Moore, John Strysik and Andrew Leman & Sean Branney...

I hope people turn out in droves, so the LA fest can turn into the amazing event that the Portland fest became...

Check out press coverage for the event at the Daily Breeze, Hollywood Gothique, LA Weekly and The Los Angeles Times...

Ticket information, a festival schedule and directions can be found here...


(Thanks to Aaron Vanek)

The Music of Erich Zann title sequence...

Check out the title sequence created for the Project Space Squid segment "The Music of Erich Zann" by the Vancouver Film School! The clip contains music created by Ezra Istiroti...

As previously reported, The Interactive Lovecraft or Project Space Squid is an interactive journey and ebook created for tablets such as the HP Tablet and Apple iPad...

Check out the production blog for news, pics and more...

"The Music of Erich Zann" Title Sequence from Ezra Istiroti on Vimeo.

(Thanks to Ezra Istiroti)

Plotdigger Films spawns an evil from beyond...

While doing my routine scan of the web for all things Lovecraftian, I ran across news of Plotdigger Films upcoming project Alarming. Early poster art portrays the film as an interesting looking creature feature, but newer artwork makes the film look a little more, shall we say, cosmic! Currently in the script stage, production is scheduled for late 2010 with Ryan Nicholson directing and J.R. Boos writing...


According to information gathered from the Plotdigger forum, the story revolves around a cursed patch of land which harbours an eldritch evil older than time itself -- until a greedy land developer moves in on its territory and unleashes hell on earth, and the film promises disgusting mutations, zombies, larvae, tentacle rape, explosions, monster-on-monster kaiju fights and more...


About the film: For security guard Dale Wallenchuk and his co-workers, it starts as a regular assignment: a cushy job at a construction site for a luxury condo development on the edge of town. But there's something sinister in the nearby swamp, and now workers are going missing, turning up dead -- or worse. The natives say the land is cursed, haunted by an eldritch nightmare. A depraved and disgusting creature, driven to kill, to feed... and to spawn. It's blood and ooze by the barrel as Dale and his crew go toe-to-tentacle with an evil older than time. If an alarm goes off in the forest... will anyone be alive to hear it?

As always, watch this space for more...

(Thanks to plotdigger.com)

The Calling: Cthulhu Chronicles #3 out now...

The third issue of BOOM! Studios The Calling: Cthulhu Chronicles hits comic shops today! The comic retails for $3.99...

Check out bloody-disgusting.com for a six page preview...

"The Cthulhu Chronicles continue to unravel…and no one is safe! Clayton Diggs’s journey into a Lovecraft-inspired world of horror worsens and more terrifying pieces begin falling into place. Clayton finally learns the identity of the mysterious man in the photographs. But the answers he finds only lead to more questions…"


(Thanks to bloody-disgusting.com)

HPLFF Portland and LA updates...

40 Years (by Russell Appleford) and Frank DanCoolo: Paranormal Drug Dealer, a film we just can't get enough of, have been added to the Portland, Oregon H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival...

Tickets are still available for the Angeles H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival, which takes place September 11th, and can be purchased here...


(Thanks to hplfilmfestival.com)

Last Lovecraft sequel news...

According to a post on the Unfilmable.com forum, there are two sequels planned for director Henry Saine's The Last Lovecraft: Relic of Cthulhu! The second movie in the trilogy will take place at the Mountains of Madness, the third at an as yet undisclosed location...

Look for the Last Lovecraft on DVD in November...



(Thanks to Max_Writer)

Unfilmable.com bitten by the Zombie Rabbit Award...

William and Thomas, cinema loving madmen who are currently covering Indiana Jones knockoffs on their amazing Video Junkie blog, have bestowed upon Unfilmable.com, the Zombie Rabbit Award! It's been many years since anyone has awarded us for our eldritch efforts, so I would like to thank them for their support, and I must mention that they have agreed to join forces with Unfilmable.com! If you've read their Lovecraft coverage over on Video Junkie, you know we are all in for a madness inducing treat!


Now it is my turn, because that is the way this "pay it forward" award works, to recommend some of my favorite blogs, and while I don't read many (I just don't have the time), here are five that will make your brain happy (listed in alphabetical order)...

~ Grim Reviews - The Grim Blogger covers all the weird, all the time. Of particular note are his wonderfully written reviews...

~ H. P. Lovecraft And His Legacy - One of the largest collections of Lovecraftiana on the web, hosted by Chris Perridas...

~ Propnomicon - Running a Lovecraftian LARP or looking for props for your Lovecraft film? Propnomicon has it covered...

~ Terra Umbra - Empire of Shadows - Writer/director Richard Stanley takes you on a trip to the zone, and invites you to share in its wonders...

~ This Yellow Madness - Joe Pulver, one of my favorite authors and one hell of a nice guy...

(Thanks to William and Thomas)

Yellow Kings and Darker Things...

For Immediate Release:

"The King in Yellow cordially invites you to an evening of blackmail, madness, and murder..."

Celebrate the Halloween season in a double-bill of spine-tingling tales from two of the Twin Cities' masters of the macabre! Death and the deathless. Dragon shadows. Wolf dreams and time machines. Your biological clock is ticking, and founding Rockstar Storyteller phillip low has plenty to say about it in this cabaret of macabre sketches and stories. Quantum Suicide and Other Songs of Death: fondly dedicated to everyone who is drying. Especially you. (WARNING: This show contains profanity.)

It is said that the play The King in Yellow is a strange story of such decayed debauchery, that those who read its virulent pages will fall to insanity. Welcome to a futuristic 1920 that never came to pass, a desolate world imagined by Robert W. Chambers in 1895. Unhappy with this world? Never fear, a Lethal Chamber has just been opened at Washington Square for your suicidal convenience. Tim Uren brings you an alternate future that's already past in a new adaptation of The Repairer of Reputations.

"Yellow Kings and Darker Things" will be taking place at the People's Center Theater, 425 20th Avenue South, Minneapolis.

Maximum Verbosity has won acclaim with performances at such varied venues as the Minnesota Renaissance Festival, Spirit in the House, FoolFest, and the DC, Indianapolis, Iowa, and Kansas City Fringe Festivals -- even as far as Melbourne, Australia. At the 2007 Minnesota Fringe, Descendant of Dragons was the best-selling show in its venue, while in 2009 The Rise of General Arthur was nominated for Best Spoken Word Performance by FringeFamous.

"[Quantum Suicide] exhibited just about every one of my favorite dynamics of good spoken word performance...a beautiful piece about quantum mechanics and love, time and mistakes, without losing the audience once...the writing was tight, the pace was perfect, and the writer engaged the audience in a smooth and engrossing style."

- Cole Sara, Minnesota Microphone

"Horror is difficult to pull off on stage, but Tim Uren...makes easy work of the complex, overheated prose, creating a vivid and compelling sense of dread."

- Alan Berks, Minnesota Playlist

Performance Times Thursday, October 28th at 7:30pm (pay-what-you-can night) Friday, October 29th at 7:30pm Saturday, October 30th at 7:30pm (costume party*)

*come in costume -- dressed as what you most fear -- and get two dollars off of the full ticket price (three, if used in conjunction with a Fringe button). Best costume will be decided by audience applause, with a prize basket for the winner! Afterwards, join the cast for a drink down the street at the Town Hall Brewery!

Ticket prices are $18.00, $16.00 with a Fringe button discount. For reservations, leave a message (stating your name, callback number, and number of tickets) at the Maximum Verbosity box office line at (952)926-6728, up to 48 hours in advance of the show; you will be called back within 24 hours to confirm.


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(Thanks to Tim Uren)

Mountains of Madness, another opinion...

The following information was taken from the comment section for Keith Lindsay's news item from September 4th. Keep in mind that I have no idea who wrote this, or whether or not they have read the most current [completed] draft of the script. I am only posting this for those of you who may have missed it...

Beware, there be spoilers ahead...

I've read the script, the latest one*.There was no cheese and no campiness. Everything on display is deadly serious and highly Lovecraft. Del Toro has captured all the elements but done so through his own unique vision. The script is breath taking in its horror and action packed at times but everything takes place in under an incredible and very present atmosphere of dread. And yes the atmosphere is palapable on every page. It is not a Hollywood film, it is a chilling vision of AtMoM done on a fairly epic scale, that DOES hold true to the story, incredibly so, while also allowing the work to be more accesible to the public at large. That last bit sounds bad, but after reading the script I went back and studied the original text at length. The only real difference is that Del Toro chooses to show us the sights of Antartica instead of having us witness them through radio broadcasts etc. And if you think about it, that is truly the only way to actually adapt Lovecraft to film. You have to give the unknowable a shape. You have to at least provide the audience a glimpse from which they can build their terror and he does that here, and will do that in the film I am sure. Finally, he actually gives us characters that we can relate to. In the original text that is possibly the only thing lacking. Lovecraft almost never gave us characters that we cared for other than the narrator.They simply served a function to the plot and helped it move along, the narrator is what matters. In the script you are given just enough development of all the characters to care about them to the point where you are involved in their lives. You feel for the narrator but you also care for his friends and revile his enemies. It makes the lurking horror and oppresive dread on display that much more intense. You know what is going to happen here, but you can't help but feel each and every terrible thing that happens and progressively become more and more fearful as the story goes on. I feel no need to delve into details about the script and I hope that this comment helps to alleviate some of the trepidation that the poorly written review by Temple of Ghoul has obviously left you with. Trust in Del Toro, he knows what he's doing and more importantly he knows Lovecraft**.

*I have an incredible source near to the material. I was allowed time with but not granted a script.
** See the documentary that you promoted here yourself not too long ago. Lovcraft: Fear of the Unknown (I may have mis-typed the title, but I dod own and have seen the doc itself.)If anyone can pull this off it is Guillermo Del Toro.

(Thanks to Anonymous)

Updated: The Black Velvet Necronomicon...

Check out this promo video for artist Mike Dubisch's limited edition artbook, The Black Velvet Necronomicon! The hardcover contains 48 full color plates and an introduction by Cody Goodfellow. Each book is signed and numbered by the artist...

Update: This book is still in the planning stages and has not been published. Check out kickstarter.com for more information...



(Thanks to Mike Dubisch)

The Island premiere announced...

For Immediate Release:

Murfreesboro Filmmaker Nathan Fisher to Premiere His New Film The Island

Tuesday October 26th 10:00 PM
The Historic Belcourt Theatre
2102 Belcourt Ave Nashville Tennessee


Fresh from the success of his 2009 H. P. Lovecraft adaptation Murfreesboro filmmaker Nathan Fisher presents his newest film Beyond the Wall of SleepThe Island. Set in a post apocalyptic world of unknown time and place it tells the story of one man as his desire for human contact comes into direct conflict with his will to survive. By the standards of the world he inhabits, Tom resides in the lap of luxury, but when a young woman enters his world, he has to answer the question "What makes a life worth living".

Shot on location in Murfreesboro, TN it features an original soundtrack by local artists including Don Coyote, The Reverend Jim Elrod, Sweatervest , Jon Gower, and Josh Tannehill.

Nathan Fisher has been a fixture in the Murfreesboro arts and music scene for over 20 years, perhaps best known as the frontman for seminal Murfreesboro punk rock band Doctor Gonzo, he is also the voice of the Nashville Rollergirls.

The October screening will feature other selected shorts.


(Thanks to Nathan Fisher)

HPLFF LA Promo...

Yesterday we showed you a still from Mike Boas HPLFF LA promotional video and today we are insanely happy to show you the entire thing! Mike Boas is the mastermind behind The Other Gods and a really cool promo video that he created for the Portland, Oregon HPLFF a few years back (watch it here)...

Check out the LA promo below, and click here for the story behind Lil' Lovecraft...



(Thanks to Mike Boas)

Lil' Lovecraft goes for a walk...

Check out this still from a promotional video made by Mike Boas (The Other Gods) and Subterranea Entertainment for the Los Angeles H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival...


(Thanks to Mike Boas)

Eldritch Animation enter The Temple...

Doug Simon and Eldritch Animation, the group behind the great animated short The Statement of Randolph Carter, have announced that their next project will be an adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft's The Temple! According to their official site, the script has been finished and they are currently working on pre-production art (some of which can be seen below)...

Storyboarding begins this week, so watch this space for more...

Deep Ones - Kate McElroy

Background concept 1 - Doug Simon

(Thanks to eldritchanimation.com)

Strange Aeons Issue #3 available for pre-order...

You can now pre-order the 3rd issue of Strange Aeons magazine! The King in Yellow special, issue #3 is 64 pages of B&W and color comics, book & game reviews, all new Joe Pulver fiction and an exclusive ruleset for Strange Aeons, the eldritch miniature game! There is also another limited edition lobby card from Strange Aeons: The Movie...

As previously mentioned (see August 27 news), the first 100 customers will also receive a limited edition custom King in Yellow miniature, courtesy of Uncle Mike's Worldwide. A painting guide will also be included...

Click here for details...


(Thanks to Kelly Young)

Quick H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival update...

Tickets to the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival should be available by the time you read this, and the official site reports that director Stuart Gordon is scheduled to attend, and the incredible Lovecraftian rock band Darkest of the Hillside Thickets are likely to attend...

The Whole Wide World, a film depicting the relationship between HPL's friend and Conan creator Robert E. Howard and schoolteacher Novalyne Price Ellis, will also screen at the festival...

More soon...

(Thanks to hplfilmfestival.com)

Ridley Scott talks Alien prequels...

Legendary director Ridley Scott spoke with the Independent recently about what you can expect from his forthcoming Alien prequels, to be shot in 3D...

"Jim's raised the bar, and I've got to jump to it," Ridley told the site. "He's not going to get away with it. The film will be really tough, really nasty. It's the dark side of the moon. We are talking about gods and engineers. Engineers of space. And were the aliens designed as a form of biological warfare? Or biology that would go in and clean up a planet?"

Sounds Lovecraftian to me...

(Thanks to Dread Central)

More News about MoM

And I wish it sounded more promising. I sent these links to Craig tonight, but I couldn't wait to post them because I was curious to see what people thought:

MoviesBlog mentioning a script review of MoM: http://moviesblog.mtv.com/2010/08/30/at-the-mountains-of-madness-script-review-appears-online/

And here is the review itself: http://templeofghoul.blogspot.com/2010/08/at-mountains-of-madness-script-review.html

As you can see above if you scroll down far enough the review is supposed to be for a leaked script that was fake (and that Lawyers supposedly had Twitch Film take it down).

Some part of me is upset...I was hoping for this film to finally be a solid adaptation of a Lovecraft story without any cheese or campiness.

Updated: The Oklahoma Horror Film Fest is today...

I will be attending the Oklahoma Horror Film Fest today, so if your there, stop by and say hi! Just look for the shirt with tentacles on it!

Update: Day one is over, and a good time was had by all! Will be wearing my Strange Aeons shirt today! Hope to see you there...

- Craig Mullins
Found/Webmaster
Unfilmable.com


(Thanks to Joel Hulett)

Del Toro wants Tom Cruise to join the Madness...

Keep in mind that the following information is unconfirmed, but collider.com is reporting that Guillermo del Toro wants Tom Cruise to star in his adaptation of At the Mountains of Madness, while sources say that Universal is leaning towards James McAvoy (Wanted) to play the lead. Another name being mentioned is Chris Pine, who played James Kirk in J.J. Abrams' Star Trek...

As previously reported, Ron Perlman (Hellboy) may play the role of Larson...

(Thanks to collider.com)

Spielberg bringing Locke & Key to TV...

Steven Spielberg and DreamWorks TV are teaming up with writer/producers Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci to bring Joe Hill's Lovecraftian comic Locke & Key to TV. The pilot episode, which has been optioned by FOX, will be written by executive producer Josh Friedman...

About the comic: Locke & Key tells the tale of three children who become the caretakers of Keyhouse, a mansion in the New England town of Lovecraft that is full of secrets and magic. The trio discover special doors which take them to different places, give them powers, and even alter gender and skin color. Behind one door is a dangerously violent creature and you know it's only a matter of time before it gets out...


(Thanks to Dread Central)

New Re-Animator shirts from Creepy Tees...

Creepy Tees recently announced its upcoming Re-Animator shirt designs, including a Limited Edition "Glow-in-the-Dark" shirt that is limited to 250 units worldwide! The basic shirt retails for $15.99 and the Limited Edition shirt is $24.99...

Click here for more...



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The official Altitude trailer takes flight...

The official trailer for Kaare Andrews' Altitude has finally been released and you can check it out below! Anchor Bay will release the film on DVD and Blu-ray October 26th...

About the film: After a mysterious malfunction sends their small plane climbing out of control, a rookie pilot and her four teenage friends find themselves trapped in a deadly showdown with a supernatural force...


(Thanks to fearnet.com)

The Creature returns...

Diamond Select Toys will release a new line of Universal Monsters toys this October, including everyone's favorite Deep One, the Creature from the Black Lagoon! According to Dread Central, Diamond Select will release a retro cloth series, basic action figure format and a line of Minimates...

The Creature Minimates pack contains the Creature in both classic colors and a glow-in-the-dark version, plus Dr. Reed (with diving gear) and Kay Lawrence and retail for around $15.99. The basic action figure lines (one figure and a small base) will only be available only at Toys R Us (price unknown), and the deluxe version (see below) will be available online and contains a 7-inch Creature. You can pre-order one here for $19.99...

Check out Dread Central for more images...


(Thanks to Dread Central)